The X-Files Fight The Future

SCULLY: Why did they assign me to you in the first place, Mulder?

To debunk your work, to rein you in, to shut you down ?

MULDER: But you saved me! As difficult and as frustrating as it's

been sometimes, your goddamned strict rationalism and science

have saved me a thousand times over! You've kept me honest ...

you've made me a whole person. I owe you everything ... Scully,

and you owe me nothing.

(Through this speech, Scully looks at him in shock as his honesty

flows out. Her eyes begin to fill with tears. Yeah, okay, mine did too.)

MULDER: I don't know if I wanna do this alone... I don't even know

if I can ... and if I quit now, they win.

(Scully's tears begin to silently flow. Her lovely bottom lip quivering

with emotion, she falls into him, holding him tightly as his arms

enfold her. She closes her eyes as her tears fall onto his shoulder.

She pulls back and kisses him on his forehead, then gently rests

her own forehead on his, still crying. Mulder slowly pulls her face

back so he can look at her, his hands resting on the back of her

head. She looks into his eyes, her hands resting on the back of his

head as well. Her tears flow, her lip quivers, she sees something

in his eyes which tells her they're both thinking the same thing,

at least to me, anyway. They both lean in for The Kiss ... lips do

touch for a brief, shining second ... then she suddenly grabs the

back of her own neck and says ...)

SCULLY: Ow!

MULDER: (thinking he's done something wrong) I'm sorry.

SCULLY: Something stung me.

(Mulder reaches down and plucks out the bee, holding it in his

fingers, its little legs squirming in the air. (DW NOTE: Shock!

That stupid bee hurts Scully, hmm - too late to squeeze it. But

let's just listen to what Rob Bowman said about the hallway scene

"...what's not on the film - is -- blast... they started the scene,

they got right into the drama - you know the whole time they knew --

coming closer and closer and closer - and then -- tongues came out

- and then they slapped up against the wall -- she drove him up

against the wall - his arms went up, his eyes opened up and then ...

they slipped right out of frame... so they did it again!"

David Duchovny: "We did it to our liking -- and then we said, let us

do one more... then I kind of pushed Gillian up against the wall ..."

Gillian Anderson let us know about the almost kiss: "I have to say

that shooting the hallway scene was probably one of my favorites...

It was really close, wasn't it. I mean that was like a millimeter away

- Yeah -- That was pretty hot wasn't it! It was pretty good." DW: "YES!":)

MULDER: Must've gotten in your shirt.

SCULLY: Mulder ... something's wrong.

MULDER: What?

SCULLY: I'm having lacinating pain in ...

MULDER: What?

SCULLY: ... my chest.

MULDER: Scully ...

SCULLY: My motor functions are being affected.

(She begins to fall into Mulder and he grabs her.)

MULDER: Scully ...

(Mulder gently but quickly lays her down upon the hallway floor)

SCULLY: My pulse is thready ... a funny taste in the back of

my throat.

MULDER: I think you're going into anaphylactic shock.

SCULLY: No ... I have no alergy.

(Mulder runs into his apartment and grabs the phone.

He dials 911 with the emergency button.)

MULDER: (on phone): This is Special Agent Fox Mulder,

I have an emergency! I have an agent down!

(Next we see Scully being placed on a gurney.)

PARAMEDIC 1: Can you hear me? Can you say your name?

PARAMEDIC 2: She's got constriction in the throat and larynx.

PARAMEDIC 1: Passages are open. OK. Let's get her in the van

right away. Look out. Coming through. Watch your back.

(Scully is loaded into the ambulance.)

MULDER: She said she had a funny taste in the back of her throat.

But there was no pre-existing allergy to bee sting. Now the bee that

stung her might have been carrying a virus.

PARAMEDIC 1: Virus?

MULDER: Will you tell that to the doctor?

Various Paramedics Voices: "... virus ... advise ... reaction ... stat!

MULDER: What hos ... what hospital are ... (the ambulance door

closes, Mulder goes to the driver) What hospital are you taking her to?

(The ambulance driver just looks back at him. He pulls a gun and

fires at Mulder's head. Mulder falls. Seconds later, another

ambulance, the real one, pulls up. The scene cuts to an airport

runway as a cargo plane lands. The ambulance pulls up, and

soldiers move out a familiar-looking person-sized container.

It's Scully! She's moved into the plane as we see Cancer Man

lighting a ciggie, waiting inside the plane. The soldiers run off,

the door closes and we see Cancer Man take a drag. The screen

goes black, we hear voices.)

FROHIKE: What are you doing?

LANGLY: Reading his chart.

FROHIKE: Put it down.

LANGLY: I'll put it down when I'm ready.

BYERS: I think he's coming out of it.

LANGLY: He's coming to.

(The screen now shows a close-up view of our boys, The Lone

Gunmen, as they hover over Mulder's hospital bed. Mulder is

being fed oxygen through a tube in his nose, his head wrapped in

bandages.)

FROHIKE: Hey, Mulder? Mulder?

MULDER: Oh my God. Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow ?Toto!

(Frohike's not pleased with the joke, but at least his friend is all right.

Mulder tries to sit up and winches in pain, holding his head.)

MULDER: What am I doing here?

BYERS: The bullet grazed your brow and (by itself?) your temporal

plate.

LANGLY: A few centimeters to the left and we抎 all be playing harps

right now.

FROHIKE: You've been unconscious since they brought you in.

MULDER: (shooting up in the bed) Where's Scully?!

BYERS: We put together you called 911. That call must have been

intercepted.

FROHIKE: Scully had a reaction to an Africanized honeybee we

found in your hall.

(Frohike holds up a vial containing the bee.)

MULDER: I抳e got to get to her.

(Mulder attempts to stand up, is woozy and staggers a bit before

sitting right back down. His door opens and Skinner walks in, going

quickly to the staggering Mulder and helping to hold him up before

he falls on his butt.)

SKINNER: Mulder, easy, easy?look, you're staying right here.

MULDER: You don't understand, this goes all the way back to Dallas.

SKINNER: Tell me where she is, I'll find her.

MULDER: I don't know where she is! But I can think of someone

who might.